The Ādi Granth, or the Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs (1877) · 46

katanca | mata | katanca | pita |1 katanca | banita | biuuda | sutaha || 44-4 + 4 + 3 = 15) qn-i?-

katanca | bhrata | mita hi|ta bandhava || katanca | mohu ku|tamba tu || 4 + 3 + 4 + 4:= 15) ^^ -jj-

katanca | capala | mohani | rupam || pekhante 1 tyagam | karoti || 4 + 3 + 4 + 4:=15i 97 -ij-

•3tJ3 ^ dJ|<^IA f^-^^ TTIT^ W^^ »KH3 37^ II

rahanta ] sanga ] bhagvana 1 simaranu 1| nanaka | labdhyam | accuta [ tanaha l|4 + 3 + 4 + 4=::15| onir

In this Slok the first and fourth, and the second and third verse rhyme together, and have also the same number of moras. "Whatever be therefore understood by 7{^^ flvJlTf53l. so much is evident, that they have no uniform metre, as the Sloks also vary considerably in the number of verses.

The Dakhana is a couplet of two verses, which rhyme at the end, each verse being divided by a caesura into two hemistichs after the twelfth mora, the whole verse containing 12 + 10 = 22 Kalas, which may be distributed into Ganas of 5 + 4 + 3 || 3 + 4 + 3. As regards the number of moras, the Dakhana therefore coincides with the Slok (see sub. 7), the only difference being, that the Dakhanil is always restricted to one couplet. In the Granth the Dakhana is always found in connexion with the so-called Chant (see the nest following metre), which it usually precedes.

We subjoin two Dakhanas, from Siri Eag, Chant I., 1, 2, Mah. V. (Transl. p. 109):

hatha majhahu ma piri | pase kiu didaru || 12 + 10 = 22 K.

santa saranai labhane | nanaka prana adharu || 12 + 10 = 22 K.

ON THE LAKGUAGE ASTl THE METRES USED IN THE GRANTH. cxss7

dhurl majanu saJlia kliG | sfu tine kripalu [| 12 + 10 = 22 K.

laJdhe habbhe thokare | nanaka hari dhanu miilu || 12 + 10 — 22 K.

Chant f^3) is in the Granth the name of a stanza, which consists of three couplets, each couplet having its o-^vti rhyme. Each verse of the couplet contains 28 moras, being scanned by 8 + 8 + 8+4, with a caesura after the sixteenth mora, the whole couplet therefore 28 + 28 = 56 moras. Kff. Sirl Bag, Chant, Mah. V., I. (III.) (Transl. p. 109):

^^Ti WH^ f^rf vtfe' i\f3 ^3K »if^ nrr^ iifV® ii

carana kamala siu | piriti rlti || santana mani a]vae jiu |i 28 K. \

dutia bhau | bipriti anlti |l dasa naha bha[vae Jiu |! 28 K. y

dasa naha bhavae | binu darsavae || ika khinu dhiraju | kiu karai |1 28 K. \

7!m TH4M 3^ *r^ ^fteT rR5 fTO *r^^ f?r# ^ ll | 56 k.

nama bihuna | tanu manu luua || Jala binu machull | jiu marai || 28 K. /

^im v^ funrrt "vjitj nnnt ar^ ^n^ ^fji f»Tfe m^ ii

mUu merai piare | prana adhare || guna sadha sangi mili | gavae || 28 K. \

27T7J7? w»T^ xrrfH w^^p" Hf?s "sfTi wff? ^mr^ ii ' 55 jj;

nanaka ke sualmi dhari anugrahu || mani tani anki salmavae || 28 K. ]

The Pauri (\| 0;f\) is on an average a stanza of live verses (though it may also contain more or less) which all rhyme together at the end, and are divided by a caesura into two hemistichs. In the Granth the Pauri usually follows after one or two Sloks and constitutes in connexion with the Slok or Sloks the so-called Viir, which is therefore a mixed stanza. The verses of the PanrI are therefore, as a rule, scanned in the same way as the S15k, viz. by 12 + 10 moras, which may, as in the Dakhana, be distributed into Ganas of 5 + 4 + 3 || 3 + 4 + 3.

"S\'e subjoin a Pauri taken from Sirl Hag, Yar I., Mali. III. (Transl. p. 113):

hari akk5 karta ikkii || IkkO dibTmu hari || 12 + 10 =: 22 K.

hari ikkasai dahai amaru || ikko hai-i citti dhari || 12 + 10 = 22 K.

' Tliough the word is written here \{\f3', it must be read piriti, for the sake of the metre.

cxsxvi ON THE LANGUAGE AND THE METRES USED IN THE GRANTH.